5LL #370: Sudan, Life, NYPD, Literacy, Communization
Blood Spilled in Sudan Can Be Seen From Space. Nobody Can Feign Ignorance About What’s Going On
Nesrine Malik, The Guardian
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts.
The Politics of Life
Andreas Malm, Salvage
Continuing the resistance against all this destruction is now an affirmation of the very possibility of life itself.
Zohran Mamdani Just Inherited the NYPD Surveillance State
Ali Winston, Wired
In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations.
We Used to Read Things in This Country
Noah McCormack, The Baffler
The history of literacy is the history of class.
What Connects the Paris Commune and the George Floyd Uprising?
Clinton Williamson and Jasper Bernes, The Nation
A conversation with the writer and theorist Jasper Bernes about the left after the summer of 2020 and the state of revolutionary politics.